Daughter, in America the river isn’t wet. Young girls learn to fill their jugs on the internet. • How much simpler can love be? Let’s get engaged now. Text me. Traditionally in landays and in Pashtun society the riverbank, or godar, where women gather water is the place of romance. Men are forbidden from going to the godar, but they frequently sneak looks at their crushes coming and going from the riverbank. Many rural Pashtun women believe that the internet’s sole purpose is for matchmaking. The second landay here refers to another burgeoning technology: an estimated seventeen million Afghans — out of twenty-five million total — have mobile phones. Torpekai Shinwari, a woman from the district of Rodar, gathered these poems from the girls of her village. via-poetry magazine.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:57:07 +0000
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